ISS Cameras Will Keep Filming as Long as Space Radiation Doesn’t Kill Them

How to Track the ISS

This website set up by NASA additionally tracks the ISS and presents a livestream of the video. If the display screen is black, the ISS is a few 250 miles above the half of the Earth the place it’s nighttime.

On the Columbus Eye website, customers can monitor the placement of the ISS over the Earth as it travels 17,150 miles per hour, or about 5 miles per second. The ISS orbits the Earth nearly each 92 minutes, give or take just a few seconds.

Where on the earth is the ISS?

The ESA additionally operates an ISS Tracker portal that reveals the house station’s location relative to the whole Earth, and when it’s over your hometown.

A screenshot of the ESA’s house station tracker.

As astronauts who’ve skilled the Overview Effect will let you know, seeing Earth from above will change every part. It was a sense skilled by NASA astronaut Leland Melvin, who recalled he experience to Inverse lately:

I look out the window, and I see the planet once more. We’re going round it so quick and we’re coming over Virginia. I look down and I’m considering, “My parents are probably having a meal.” Five minutes later, we’re over Paris, the place Léo’s from, our French long-duration astronaut. And then Yuri, from Russia, can look over to the aspect and see his dwelling.

And so, on this one little second in time, we’re our respective houses, breaking bread, and celebrating like we’re in house. And that’s when this shift occurred, as a result of I noticed a lot of the planet in 90 minutes.

With the video stay feed from the ISS, anyone with an web connection can expertise a sliver of the overview impact — as lengthy as house radiation doesn’t degrade the video.